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Sarawak: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he has every right to defend himself and his family by demanding Harakahdaily to retract an article on 1Malaysia Development Berhad deemed defamatory. "What was written were slanderous.
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Christie Jenkins holds a camera while leaning against a wall featuring some of her ice skating photographs inside her photo studio in Carmel on Friday. David Royal - Monterey Herald CARMEL >> The owner of a local photography gallery says she took great care in selecting Carmel as the ideal place to open a gallery where she could showcase her art and advertise her commercial photography services, but things didn't work out.
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Former University of Utah and New York Knicks basketball player Wat Misaka, with his wife Katie of 56 years, talks to documentary film co-directors at his home Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008, in Bountiful, Utah.
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Micki Nuding , senior editor at Gallery Books, struck a three-book, world rights deal with bestseller Alice Clayton . The former indie author is best known for her Cocktail series; the first Cocktail book, Wallbanger , was originally self-published .
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The terrorist attacks in Denmark this month and in Paris earlier in January, dreadful as they were, provided just the latest example of Islamic fundamentalism at its worst. There is now the desperate need for a coherent strategy not only by Western political leaders, but also by the leaders of peace-loving Muslims around the world.
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Patrick Chappatte in The New York Times has destroyed Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, in his latest political cartoon. The piece, entitled " Mr. Netanyahu Goes to Washington ," plays upon Netanyahu's continued expansion of Israel's West Bank settlements in critiquing his upcoming speech before Congress on March 3. Netanyahu's speech, planned with Speaker John Boehner behind President Obama's back , promises to be a boisterous rebuttal of Obama's diplomatic efforts with Iran, and will be presented as a case for Israel security.
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New Washington Nationals' starter Max Scherzer knows there is always room for improvement, and the 30-year-old right-hander thinks the new cutter he's working on this Spring will help him in his first season with the Nats. A better Scherzer? Max Scherzer went in 161 starts over five seasons with Detroit, posting a 3.52 ERA, 3.32 FIP, 2.71 BB/9 and 9.60 K/9 in 1,013 innings pitched.
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Two Russian women have been legally married, even though Russian law forbids same-sex marriage. How did they do it? Russian law also does not recognize changes to gender, and one of the women is trans.
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ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- A dozen or so years ago I wrote an article called "The Handwriting on the Wall," and in it I mentioned how I had laughed years earlier when a woman objected to anyone smoking in an elevator and took her case to court.
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Under intense pressure from Democratic Party officials, Harold E. Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman, has decided not to challenge Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand in the primary this fall, according to two people told of his plans. He has told friends that, while he is convinced he could prevail against Ms.
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Central Florida leaders will be mounting a media blitz next week in New York to spread the word about the new "Orlando: You Don't Know the Half of It" campaign. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs headline a list of dignitaries that also includes Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission CEO Rick Weddle and Ken Potrock, a Disney executive who played a key role in crafting the campaign.
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"We announce this news with profound sadness, and our thoughts and prayers are with Bob's family at this difficult time," said Robert S. Miller, Chairman of the AIG Board of Directors. "Bob was one of the most inspirational and successful leaders in corporate America by any measure.
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Lawyers from the Women's Law Project explain why UPenn professors' objections to campus gender-based violence procedures are wrong. Read the NYT review of Ai-jen Poo's The Age of Dignity , and then check out Sheila Bapat's review here on Feministing .
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I am black, but [AND] comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
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The New York Times is closing its Home section, the latest in a string of cost-cutting moves at the paper. "It's a really sad day," said section editor Noel Millea, who will continue working for the paper in a yet-to-be-determined role.
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'La Coiffeuse' was stolen in France and smuggled into the US in a parcel marked 'art craft/toy: value $37' Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature. Please read our Legal Terms & Policies The Pompidou Centre in Paris hopes to put a lost Picasso masterpiece back on public display by the end of May - after a US attorney revealed it had been found in New York.
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Two recent news stories highlight a possible surge in the development of housing in high cost rental markets like New York and Washington, DC. A New York Times article and NPR story featured approaches to living in small housing units, or micro units, as a means of providing an affordable alternative to high rent living.
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Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for his roll as Spock in Star Trek, has died at age 83, the New York Times has reported. Leonard Nimoy, best known as 'Spock,' dies at 83 Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for his roll as Spock in Star Trek, has died at age 83, the New York Times has reported.
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